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GasLightStreet
The Rolling Stones' last truly inventive and creative LP was UNDERCOVER and their last meaningful hits compilation was REWIND.
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schillid
At various times in their carrer, the Stones have had five, six, or 4 members. They've had 9 or 10 onstage.
These numbers are all positive.
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geordiestone
The Rolling Stones are the most important band ever and without them we wouldn't have all the great bands who followed that were influenced. Most of the music I dig you can trace it back to The Rolling Stones influence.
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geordiestone
The Rolling Stones are the most important band ever and without them we wouldn't have all the great bands who followed that were influenced. Most of the music I dig you can trace it back to The Rolling Stones influence.
Most imitated band ever, but not even remotely matched by anyone.
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stonesrule
GeordieStone makes a very important point.
I was around a lot of British and American bands, both known and unknown, in the late Sixties and Seventies. The great majority of them were true fans who couldn't wait to get the next RS record and definitely looked up to the Stones.
Whether it was Keith Moon, Jim Morrison or the young unknowns Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others, they always wanted to know if I had "news of the Stones"...They were Excited at anything I might say.
The Stones were A Major Fact of Young People's Lives in the UK, US and Europe.
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stonesrule
Doxa, wonderfully explained!
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Palace Revolution 2000
When that new album comes out I am going to be so positive.
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Natlanta
i'm certain that they're magnetic.
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Doxa
To continue a bit.. If I recall right Gillet in his THE SOUND OF THE CITY, an early account of history of rock and roll, made a remark that even though the Beatles had a bigger impact over-all in pop music, and how it changed the world, their concrete impact on rock music was more short-time than that of the Stones that had a larger stylistic impact on the whole idea what a rock and roll band is all about. I think the whole history of rock music very much confirms that claim: the example and idea of the Stones is pretty much, and much more explicitly than that of the Beatles, written into DNA of almost any rock band in the last fifty years or so.
- Doxa